25 Empowering Life Lessons You Should Know By The Time You Turn 25

Twenty-five is a milestone birthday. You have reached a point where you're an adult, a real adult, who pays taxes, worries about health insurance and can rent a car on a whim. Of course you don't have everything figured out -- and that's a good thing -- but getting through your teens and early twenties means you've picked up some wisdom along the way.

25. "[You] still don't have all the answers." -- Facebook user Seracut Hair

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"Don't ever Google a drug, because it's all psychos being like, 'This blinded me, it killed my husband.' I once flushed all my Klonopin down the toilet, because I was so scared by what I read."--Lena Dunham to Rolling Stone

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“It’s good for you, protein and all that. I used to eat a whole chicken every day, for lunch. I did that for four years. But it got tiring — go to the store, buy it, eat it. It’s a mess.”
--Adam Driver to Vulture

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"Being humble and sweet is the hardest thing you can do. Stay confident and don’t act desperate, because I guarantee whomever you’re into actually sucks way more than you think they do. There is always something they’re not telling you that will bring them down a notch in your eyes."--Jemima Kirke to Vice

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“I categorize age as a medical condition. What if I asked you about your last operation?”
--Alex Karpovsky to The New Yorker

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"Ninety percent of the time when I go on dates I think, I could be reading my book instead.”--Zosia Mamet, to Conan O'Brien

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"Losing competitiveness doesn't mean you lose drive. It's important to make that distinction.'
--Christopher Abbott to Details

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"Something that's been lovely about the last couple of years is that I've finally abandoned the pursuit of perfection, which I think I was pretty stubbornly holding on to, just always trying to be the best at everything I did. I grew up enough to realize that the people I respect aren't perfectionists. And I was like, 'Oh, that's so much more perfect.'"--Allison Williams to Town & Country